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LOT 2947
Broadness Stone Age Knapped Flint Chisel
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P.
4 1/4 in. (74 grams, 10.8 cm).
Natural flint nodule with a long columnar spur, the lower end knapped to create a handle and blade; inked 'Broadness' legend. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Broadness, Kent, UK.
Gifted to Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham; who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.
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LOT 2947
Broadness Stone Age Knapped Flint Chisel
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Opening Bid: £5
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With desired Hugh Fawcett Collection monogram. From the collection of West Sussex, UK, collector.
Dr. Hugh Alderson Fawcett (1891-1982) was a general practitioner and antiquarian who built up an important collection of ancient implements, weapons and ornaments. The bulk of his collection is now in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, but Fawcett previously sold or traded some examples. His distinctive monogram and careful recording of provenance makes his pieces readily identifiable. -
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Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Round-section shank flaring to a broad cutting edge, rounded butt. 394 grams, 10.8 cm
Found El Golea, Algeria. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s. -
Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 60,000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £80
Ovate in profile and lentoid in section with broad butt and rounded point; some cortex to one face. 1.23 kg, 16 cm
Found close to the Palaeolithic Neanderthal site of Lynford Quarry, Norfolk. Private collection, London, UK.
Lynford Quarry, a famous and well-documented site, sits on the edge of an ancient channel of water where Neanderthals thrived and hunted. When excavated many years back, hundreds of flint tools were unearthed alongside thousands of butchered bones and teeth of mammoths, woolly rhinos and deer. This axe may have been used for crushing bones to extract the nutritious marrow.
